Word Meanings - GONGORISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted. Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England, and Spain. The Critic. The Renaissance riots itself away in Marinism, Gongorism, Euphuism, and the affectations of the Hôtel Rambouillet. J. A. Symonds.

• NOTTHEADED
  Having the hair cut close. [Obs.] Chapman.
• Criticism
  The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.
• Notability
  Quality of being notable.
• Notching
  of Notch
• Nothingarian
  One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
• Notionality
  A notional or groundless opinion.
• Notornis
  A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is
• Affectionated
  Disposed; inclined.
• Broken wind
  The heaves.
• Broken-winded
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Curious
  Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
• Notable
  Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.
• Notchboard
  The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.
• Nothingism
  Nihility; nothingness.
• Notionally
  In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality.
• Nototherium
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• Affectionately
  With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
• Styled
  of Style

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